Little Philosophical Lexicon of Anarchism from Proudhon to Deleuze, A - Softcover

Colson, Daniel; Cohn, Jesse

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570273413 ISBN 13: 9781570273414

Publisher: Minor Compositions, 2019

Synopsis

Is the thought of Gilles Deleuze secretly linked to Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's declaration: 'I am an anarchist'? Has anarchism, for more than a century and a half, been secretly Deleuzian? In the guise of a playfully unorthodox lexicon, sociologist Daniel Colson presents an exploration of hidden affinities between the great philosophical heresies and 'a thought too scandalous to take its place in the official edifice of philosophy,' with profound implications for the way we understand social movements.

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Review:

"In a creative and yet precise way, Daniel Colson brings together two lines of thought - philosophy from Spinoza to Leibniz - and anarchism from Proudhon to the present day. At their intersection he discovers an affirmative and expressive anarchism that rejects all forms of resentment and negativity. This is anarchism as joy and empowerment rather than sadness and accusation." - Todd May, author of The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism

"Offers a line of thinking that connects disparate thinkers ranging from Proudhon to Simondon to Nietzsche to Deleuze... What emerges is a radical challenge to the insistence on dialectic resolution, to occult left teleologies, and to the certainty that past anarchists have nothing to say to contemporary anarchists." - James Martel, author of The Misinterpellated Subject

"Colson's Lexicon is an inspiring resource for conceptualizing anarchism: it offers new, exciting paths for exploring anarchism with French thought and French thought with anarchism." - Iwona Janicka, author of Theorizing Contemporary Anarchism

About the Author:

Daniel Colson is a professor of sociology at the Université de St.-Étienne in Lyon. He is the author of Trois Essais de Philosophie Anarchiste: Islam, Histoire, Monadologie (2004) as well as several studies of French labor history.

About this edition

• Publisher: Minor Compositions
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1570273413
• ISBN 13: 9781570273414
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280